D&Diesel with Vin Diesel (Extended Version)
Why Role-playing Games Stack Exchange recommends it
RPG Stack Exchange answerers point people to it as an example of a publicly streamed or performed D&D game run by Critical Role DM Matt Mercer.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2017 to 2023.
What it is
An extended recording of a 2015 Dungeons & Dragons session in which actor Vin Diesel plays with Matthew Mercer as Dungeon Master, produced by Geek & Sundry and Nerdist. It was made to promote the film The Last Witch Hunter and features a witch hunter class.
What people said
Recommends enkryptor · 2019-09 · Role-playing Games Stack Exchange · on “How to flavor my narration of a fight in a creatively plausible way without affecting mechanics?”
Describe attacks and let players describe their final blows It seems your players want more colorful combat description . They do not want to insta-kill enemies by saying "I shoot them in the eye". Instead, they're interested in more detailed narrative part. Give them these details! Describe attacks, both PCs' and NPCs' ones. Describe wounds, bruises and scratches instead of simple "you lost 5 hp". Until this does not mess with mechanics, you will be fine. Matthew Mercer, the Critical Role [LINK] DM, describes details of players actions and effects of their actions, while a monster still has HP. When it is down — he allows the player to describe the final blow: — Okay, this shot kills him. H
Cites BlueMoon93 · 2017-03 · Role-playing Games Stack Exchange · on “Randomly Alternating GMs in D&D 5-e”
Use split characters. Different players will want to play different characters, which different choices. Whether its character creation (race, class), leveling (specialization, spell list), role-playing (aggressive, shy), you will want to do different things at different moments. Eventually, one of you will do something that the other won't agree with, or will not play as they prefer to avoid offending someone. That makes the game less fun. If you're worried about keeping up in terms of loot or level, when one of your characters levels up, the other off-line character also does. When you receive part of the loot, the other also does. This keeps both of you on par with the rest of the party.
Cites Flotolk · 2023-08 · Role-playing Games Stack Exchange · on “Are there any groups that use role-play games as performance art?”
Not Another DnD Podcast (NADDPOD) [LINK] is a podcast where they they just play DnD. Harmonquest [LINK] is a somewhat well known half-animated show where they play a DnD campaign, and animate part of it. This is certainly a performance piece. Finally, we have the obvious 2 Dimension 20 [LINK] and and Critical Role [LINK] are two massively successful shows where they play DnD. Critical Role DM Matt Mercer also has a few other Games he ran publicly, such as DnDiesel [this video] . If you still did not get your fix, there are plenty of folks on twitch that will stream their games and then upload the games to YouTube.